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Tachycardia and Stiff Person Syndrome
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: May 20 9:54am | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
@meadows
I am not aware of anyone experiencing this with SPS. I experience heart palpitations at times, but it seems to be tied to hormones and anxiety/stress. I just recently saw a cardiologist and had a lot of testing done. The halter actually revealed an average heart rate of 60, which is kind of low for my age. I am in my 40s. I think it may be due to all of the medications I take. I wonder if your body goes into some state of anxiety when the spasm is beginning and increases your heart rate. It seems as though most SPS patients battle with anxiety on a daily basis.
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Thanks for writing. It's really the heart that wakes me from sleep and then usually within 15 seconds I get the feeling where I know that spasm is going to happen - I believe it's the heart first racing although certainly I agree the heart can race from the anxiety an attack causes. I have mostly partial (in legs/feet) stiff-person. I have seen the "intense pushing out" of the feet in stiff person videos - one that did not have stiff person might not realize the intensity/force of that pushing out feeling - it pulled a muscle one day. Let's hope there is a cure some day!